All Outputs (2)

The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer (2017)
Journal Article

The article addresses the role of ergonomic design in product innovation. Designers meet users’ needs by developing solutions to complex trade-offs—reverse salients—between a product’s characteristics. The fundamental ergonomic design challenge in po... Read More about The importance of ergonomic design in product innovation: lessons from the development of the portable computer.

Co-creation of social innovations and new professional institutions: diffusion of therapeutic patient education (TPE) for diabetes in Austria (2017)
Journal Article

Patient-centred education in diabetes is a radical social innovation that alters the social and medical relationship between patients and medics. This paper discusses the ways in which institutional work conducted by national and international profes... Read More about Co-creation of social innovations and new professional institutions: diffusion of therapeutic patient education (TPE) for diabetes in Austria.